Dec 14

Corrosion of Conformity

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY
 
 
Corrosion of Conformity  (also known as C.O.C.) is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina formed in 1982.  For almost the majority of its existence, the band has consisted of guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist Mike Dean (who left in 1987 but rejoined six years later), drummer Reed Mullin (who left in 2001 but rejoined nine years later) and vocalist and rhythm guitarist Pepper Keenan (who joined the band in 1989).  After a hiatus in 2006, Corrosion of Conformity returned in 2010 without Keenan, who had been busy touring and recording with Down but announced their reunion with him in December 2014.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Together with Ryan Adams, Jesse Malin co-founded a hardcore punk rock band in 2002 called The Finger.  Ryan Adams (not to be confused with Bryan Adams) has been active in music since about 2000.  I remember well a music video for his song “New York, New York” that was filmed just 4 days before September 11, 2001, showing the World Trade Center in the background. 

 

Interestingly, The Finger took its name from a notorious hardcore punk rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina called Finger; Ryan Adams was a big fan of this group.  Although I haven’t confirmed it, Finger might have grown out of an earlier Raleigh hardcore band called Colcor.  Several songs by this band were included on a 1982 cassette-only compilation album called No Core that also features Corrosion of Conformity.  I was delighted to find an LP of the music from this cassette (probably a bootleg) that was among the first albums that surfaced from the Katrina mud.  Hardcore and thrash punk is not really my thing, but I do love that album. 

 

(June 2013/2)

 

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The English Wikipedia now has well over 5 million articles – there are also Wikipedias in nearly 300 other languages, with 10 of those having more than a million articles – and includes something on just about any musician or rock band that you can name. You can give it a try yourself – think of the most obscure band or rock artist that you know about, and chances are that they are in Wikipedia. As an indication of what is there, their category on “Rock music groups from North Carolina”, my home state, includes 19 alternative rock groups, 29 indie rock groups, 6 hardcore punk groups, 28 heavy metal musical groups, and 32 others (a total of 114). I don’t know the great majority of them myself, and only a handful could be considered at all well known among rock music fans, such as the dB’s, Nantucket, the Connells (they are from Raleigh, and I believe it was their drummer who lived in the same apartment building where our appraisal office was located for many years), Let’s Active, Corrosion of Conformity, Arrogance, and Fetchin Bones.
 
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